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What Lies Do People Deceive Themselves with? 59
the people who are righteous." (Surah Yusuf: 101)
In this situation, nobody should deceive himself – nobody will be
able to enter the gates of Paradise so long as he does not bow down
and deliver himself to Allah and does not earn the approval of our
Lord. In a verse of the Qur'an, Allah shows us that this is impossible
with the following very clear example:
As for those who deny Our signs and are arrogant regarding
them, the Gates of Heaven will not be opened for them, and
they will not enter the Garden until a camel goes through a

needle's eye. That is how We repay the evildoers. (Surat al-
A'raf: 40)

People who say: "I was just doing
the same as everybody else"

In a number of matters in which people fall into error, collective
psychology has a great influence. Especially in communities which
lack religion, "following the herd" comes to be the norm even when it
is mistaken or bad. Even though he knows in his conscience what is
right, under the influence of crowd psychology a person silences his
conscience with the incorrect idea that so many people can't be wrong
and so goes along with the majority. In fact, the majority view is no
yardstick on any matter. The only guide by which people can separate
right from wrong is the Qur'an, which was sent down for this purpose.
Those who accept and conform to criteria other than those of the
Qur'an fall into very grave errors. In the Qur'an, Allah warns us very

clearly on the matter of going along with the majority:
If you obeyed most of those on Earth, they would misguide
you from Allah's way. They follow nothing but conjecture.
They are only guessing. (Surat al-An'am: 116)